Just what I was looking for! (five stars with a liitle enhancement!)

[philiprhoades]

Max,

I have had a Twitter account since almost the beginning but have only been a very occasional user because I never liked their interfaces. I found tDash which was very nice for a while but then the original author stopped supporting it. I started to look at taking over the maintenance myself but then someone more competent did it - but then sometime later he stopped supporting it too . . so I was back to avoiding Twitter . .

I have had to spend more time in the last few days looking at tweets relating to a project of mine and again the frustration with the Twitter interface surfaced - so, yet again, I went looking for alternatives. I eventually found ModernDeck etc which was definitely an improvement but I kept looking and found TwitGrid !

So I think TG is closest to what I want for the basics but say I want to have ALL the people I follow (48) in columns - I will definitely need to scroll horizontally - I am a CLI person so how about SHIFT-Pg[Dn|Up] ?

I am a (very) old C programmer and am somewhat familiar with HTML and CSS so I would be happy to help enhance TG if you are still interested in maintaining it?

Thanks! Phil,

[nuket]

Hi Philip,

Glad you like the project. So if you want everyone to be listed horizontally across 48 columns... hmm, should be doable. Feel free to add an input handler to do Shift-PageUp/Down to do the horizontal scrolling. I'd be happy to look at any pull requests you send.

Cheers, Max

[philiprhoades]

Since I posted the previous note I have been playing with the HTML file a bit and have changed my mind a little - now, rather then displaying ALL of the people I am following and needing a clunky scroll-sidways function, I think it would be better to add a column or some other thing on the left of the exising columns to list the people I am following with checkboxes so that I can easily add / remove columns of the Twitterers - is that the best way? - maybe a popup rather than an extra column?

I only deal with HTML / CSS when I have to, but I think I can see how your existing page works so I will keep playing . .

[nuket]

Hmm. I'd probably just clone the single HTML file and categorize different people to the different files. i.e. one file for fun handles, one file for serious handles, etc. in the showDefaults function. Then I'd just open different Browser windows with each file. It's not as dynamic, of course.

Otherwise, maybe an expandable/collapsable div that hovers over everything with a z-index of 1000 that contains the dynamic list of checkboxes. Or a popup.

[philiprhoades]

Hmm. I'd probably just clone the single HTML file and categorize different people to the different files.

I did think of that - and still might try that out but I think I would like to try and get the checkbox thing working . . partly as an HTML / CSS exercise . .

Otherwise, maybe an expandable/collapsable div that hovers over everything with a z-index of 1000 that contains the dynamic list of checkboxes.

OK, I will check that out too! Thanks.

[AB9IL]

Yous should see my fork of TwitGrid, in which I have set up multiple pages on several topics, presented to the user in a fuzzy finder menu (Rofi or fzf). In theory, you could set up an arbitrarily large number of different kinds of topics. I usually pick enough handles per topic to fill the page with vertical columns.

It was working great, as in this TwitGrid video -- until Elon Musk got possession of Twitter and really trashed the platform. At last count, about 40% of the people I followed have left Twitter for Mastadon and Substack.

[philiprhoades]

Philip,

On 2023-03-02 06:22, Philip Colllier wrote:

Yous should see my fork of TwitGrid [1], in which I have set up multiple pages on several topics, presented to the user in a fuzzy finder menu (Rofi or fzf). In theory, you could set up an arbitrarily large number of different kinds of topics. I usually pick enough handles per topic to fill the page with vertical columns.

It was working great, as in this TwitGrid video [2] -- until Elon Musk got possession of Twitter and really trashed the platform. At last count, about 40% of the people I followed have left Twitter for Mastadon and Substack.

Yes, I have pretty much given up trying to find something that suits me exactly - given this more recent development . . I am expecting Twitter to just wither away now . .

Thanks anyway!

Phil.

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